Common Core Assessment Methods

Common Core standards have resulted in uniform expectations of what students across the country must know and be able to do. Therefore, this collective knowledge opens the unique opportunity to assess students’ knowledge in relation to other students across the country. In addition, this will allow professionals to share their input and experience in order to further develop the assessments. There are two emerging assessment tools that gauge student learning according to common core standards.

PARCC (Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers)

PARCC has been adopted by approximately 12 states and offers a set of assessments for the subjects of Math and English. These assessments are designed to establish a route to secondary education and career readiness by the end of student’s high school careers. Key components to this assessment method are:

Diagnostic assessments are given at the start of every school year

Mid-term student assessment predictive of their probable performance by year’s end

Last quarter performance based assessments are given

Summative assessments at the end of the school year.

SBAC (Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium)

The SBAC has been adopted by approximately 18 states. This assessment is designed to support instruction, provide accurate information on student knowledge and skills. Additionally, it is intended to measure student achievement against standards established to ensure students gain the knowledge and skills they need to be successful in college and the workplace.

Much like PARCC, SBAC has a few key components:

During the final 12 weeks of school a computer-adaptive summative assessment is given

Interim assessments are utilized as predictive performance indicators and to provide student feedback on their progress.

Formative assessment resources to assist teachers in identifying and address student needs in reference to the Common Core Standards.

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Very informative post. The current assessment tools used for quick easy assessment like CPS and All in learning are based on the traditional multiple choice assessment. You are correct many state are using Critical Response Assessment to align with Common Core. Many companies like All In Learning are going to have to revisit their feature to meet the new needs like multiple select, critical response, drag, illustrating, etc. There is a move to making sure assessment really provide a deep insight to learners’ knowledge.